Hi Ken,

Thank you for your quick reply.  I tried what you suggested however it
didn't seem to work.  I have included the relevant portion of code below, if
you could take a look at it and what I might have missed from your sample, I
would greatly appreciate it.  

I am basically just analyzing the current view of the to-do bar and if it
doesn't have the Icon property, trying to add it. I noticed that it WILL add
the icon to the to-list view that you can choose from the task pane, however
it does not seem to add it to the view showing on the to-do bar.

Code
=============
public void somemethod()
{
Folder inboxFolder =
_app.Session.GetDefaultFolder(OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox) as Folder;
Folder todoBarFolder =
inboxFolder.Store.GetSpecialFolder(OlSpecialFolders.olSpecialFolderAllTasks)
as Folder;
EnsureIcon(todoBarFolder);
}

private void EnsureIcon(Folder todoBarFolder)
{
           TableView view = todoBarFolder.CurrentView as TableView;
           bool containsIcon = false;
           foreach (object o in view.ViewFields)
           {
               ViewField field = o as ViewField;
               if (field == null)
                   continue;
               if (field.ViewXMLSchemaName.Equals(ICON_NAME,
StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase))
               {
                   containsIcon = true;
                   break;
               }
           }
           if (!containsIcon)
           {
               view.ViewFields.Insert(ICON_NAME, 1);
               view.Save();
           }
}
=============

The biggest difference that I see from your code and mine is that I am using
_app.Session, instead of going through the namespace, but I tried both and it
didn't seem to make a difference.

Thanks,
Ryan